Asia

The English section of the website for Kyoto's Costume Museum features an interesting online exhibit on the history of Japanese costume and a summary of the Tale of Genji.

When the Topkap² Palace, the home of the Ottoman sultans and the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire for four hundred years, was turned into a museum in 1924, the manuscripts, found in many pavilions and rooms, were gathered together to form the New Library. Today, the Islamic manuscripts preserved in this new library have been sorted out into categories of Arabic, Farsi and Turkish.